Cotton-press



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COTTON PRESS.

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COTTON PRESS.

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Patented May 27, 1884.

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CYRUS DAVID HEFLIN, OF ROANOKE, TEXAS.

COTTON-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,139, dated May 27, 1884:. Application filed March 11, 188 (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, OYRUs DAVID HEFLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at R0- anoke, in the county of Denton and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Cotton- Press, of which the following is a specifica tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to cotton-presses; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cotton-press embodying the improvements of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on the Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the segmental mitcr-wheel, and Fig. at is a view in perspective of the cotton-press.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the main frame of the cotton-press. b designates the cotton-box or bale-chamber; d, the auxiliary guide-frame upon the top of the bale-chamber, and c the packing-block or press-block. The auxiliary frame is from twelve to fifteen feet high above the box. Its uprights are mortised into the middle of two horizontal timbers, e c, secured to the top of the bale-chamber at their front ends, and mortised into two of the uprights of the main frame at their rear ends. The tops of the uprights f f of the auxiliary frame are connected by a girder, g, from the middle of which depends a pulley, g. Upon the rails e a rest the ends of the parallel arms h h of a guide'crate, 17, the arms being 011 opposite sides of the uprights ff. The wooden arms h h are provided with angular wire rods i, bent and arranged, as shown, to form a guide for the press-block when it is raised above the top of the press-box, and to form a crate or fender when in its normal position at the mouth of the press-box, to prevent the cotton from falling in upon the press-block after the latter has fallen down into the box upon the cotton in the box.

The press-block is a heavy rectangular block that fits properly in the bale-chamber, and is provided with pins in its under face. A rope, 7a, is attached to the center of the block, and passes up over the pulley g, and thence to a drum, Z, on a rectangular shaft having bearings in the uprights m m of the main frame. One end of the drum is provided with stop-pins m", with which a a, connected to the girder of the main hook,

fra1ne,can be connected to hold the press-block in an elevated position when desired. The end of the rectangular shaft projects through the upright m, and is provided with a miterpinion, 0, which engages a segmental miterwheel, p, on a vertical shaft, having bearings in the main frame. Near the lower end this vertical shaft (1 is provided with a very small band-wheel, 0', which is connected by a belt to the gin-shaf and is not intended to run with much speed. The miter-pinion is thrown in gear by a clutch-lever. The segmental miter-wheel is large enough in diame ter to cause the toothed section to operate the drum to raise thepressblock twelve orfifteen feet above the bale-chamber, carrying the crate up with it after it reaches the top of the box before the smooth section of the miterwheel is reached, at which point the miterpinion leaves the teeth of the miter-wheel and permits the heavy press-block to fall upon the cotton in the box to pack it, the guide-crate falling with the press-block, but stopping at the mouth of the box to prevent the cotton from falling in on the press-block. The cotton may be permitted to fall into the box to be pressed; or it may be fed in by hand.

This cotton-press is cheap, is exceedingly simple, and is not liable to get out of order.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. In a cotton-press, the combination, with the main frame supporting the horizontal shaft provided with the drum and miter-pinion, and the vertical shaft having small band-wheel and large segmental miter-wheel, and the press-box, of the auxiliaryframe above the press-box, provided at its top with a pulley, and the press-block connected to the rope running oversaid pulley to the drum, substantially as specified.

2. In a cotton-press, the combination, with the press -'box, auxiliary frame, the pressblock, and mechanism, substantially as described, for operating it, of the guide crate adapted to slide upon the vertical ways of the auxiliary frame, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- CYRUS DAVID HEFLIN. Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. WnLBoRN, PERRY W. Ears. 

